Science Under the Stars: Ice Dunes or Molten Hellscape?

Join us in the Planetarium for this free talk! Guest speaker Dr. Mariah MacDonald, The College of New Jersey, covers what it means for a planet to be habitable and how we can use the dynamics of planets to study their composition, formation and evolution. Astrobiology seeks to understand how planets can support life and seeks constrain the frequency of habitable planets. Current estimates suggest that nearly 10% of Sun-like stars host rocky planets in their habitable zones and that the Milky Way alone hosts and average of 0.35 Earth-like planets per star.